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Amateur arts and folk culture Denmark has traditionally been very active in the voluntary cultural area, thanks to the public movements behind Danish cultural policy (see chapter 1.1). Historically, amateur art in Denmark is strong in the field of music and since World War II also in theatre. Today there are two main national amateur organisations in Denmark. The Joint Council of Voluntary and Amateur Arts Associations in Denmark (AKKS) and The Danish Amateur Theatre Association (DATS) have more than 115 000 active members who participate in primarily music and theatre activities on a regular basis, organised in local voluntary associations.... read more →

The basic out-of-school arts education for children and youth up to 25 years in Denmark is for a large part provided by the 99 music schools placed in the 98 municipalities in Denmark (one in each municipality except for one which has two). At the same time you will find about 50 additional art schools located throughout the country that offer both music and other creative subjects. Furthermore, there is also an unknown number of private drama and dance schools and private teachers who offer arts tuition and a large number of publicly supported amateur associations and educational art projects,... read more →

New review of artistic development in higher arts education: Following the Ministry of Culture's research strategy and multi-year agreement for higher artistic education 2006-2010 – a working group was appointed in 2010 chaired by the Ministry of Culture to prepare a statement of artistic development for educational institutions. The Working Group, in January 2012, completed particular proposals for a definition of "artistic development", as well as charts for the activities of the institutions and proposed a number of recommendations for activities within the artistic development. Artistic development is part of the knowledge base in higher arts education in Denmark and... read more →

Denmark has initiated or takes part in several trans-national exchange and cooperation programmes within education. Intercultural dialogue and co-operation are encouraged in all these programmes. The majority of education programmes available are the result of intergovernmental co-operation mainly within EU and the Nordic Council of Ministers (see chapter 1.4.2). The EU's Lifelong Learning Programme and the Nordplus programme support European cross-border co-operation at all education levels, and there are EU programmes for co-operation at higher education level with all continents. The decentralised funds within the LLP and Nordplus are administered by the Danish Agency for International Education, an authority within... read more →

The situation regarding art education in schools has been widely debated since The Danish Arts Councils  report "Spænvidder" ("Spans - about art and culture") was published in September 2010 (can be downloaded from http://www.kunst.dk). The debate has been centred on how the teaching of art in the Danish school system can be further developed and improved. Are children educated in art by doing making art themselves? Or should they be educated through teaching in art-history, art appreciation, art theory etc. What are the effects of the two sides of arts education in schools? These kinds of questions draw on various... read more →

The Ministry of Culture is responsible for most of the higher education and training in the arts. However, as of 3 October 2011 higher education within architecture, design, and preservation, along with the Royal School of Library and Information Science were moved from the Ministry of Culture to the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education. Institutions The higher arts education institutions under the Ministry of Culture include education in theatre, acting, dance, film, art, and music. The largest schools are the schools of architecture, the Royal School of Library and Information Science and the schools of design, which together... read more →

There is no explicit Danish policy linking the overall aim of equal access to cultural life to broader issues of civic participation, citizenship, civil society development / cohesion. Examples of initiatives in the last 5 years to improve cultural participation are: in 2003, The Ministry of Culture initiated a reading promotion campaign. The aim of the campaign was to strengthen children's desires and ability to read and thereby their enjoyment of reading. The programme was due to last till 2007;in the area of cultural heritage, the Danish government, in February 2005, put forward a goal of "better access to our... read more →

Latest comparable numbers for Danish cultural consumption and participation are from 2004. These numbers are compared with corresponding numbers from 1987, 1993 and 1998 (see Table below). Since 1993, there has, in general, been an increase in the amount of time spent watching television. This can be seen as the result of an increase in the supply of television broadcasting and a decrease in the participation at museums and theatres and other classical, public financed and organised cultural institutions, especially for people aged over 60 years. Instead, there has been an increase in attendance at concerts and cinema going. Reasons... read more →

Public support for the activities of artists associations or unions is not regulated by law in Denmark. According to the basic elements in the Nordic Cultural Model it is up to the artists themselves to organise and finance their associations or unions through tax-free subscriptions. As collective bodies for the artists, the unions can apply for support for special projects etc. through the Ministry of Culture. The individual members can also, as non-organised artists, apply for grants from the different councils, committees and other public bodies established to support the individual artists, i.e. the Danish Arts Foundation (see chapter 1.2.2).... read more →

It is a characteristic element in The Nordic Cultural Model that the award landscape since the 1960s has been dominated by grants, scholarships for training, travel bursaries, work grants etc. organised by public institutions like the Danish Arts Foundation, the Danish Arts Council and the Danish Arts Agency (see chapter 1.2.2). In recent years individual artists as well as public cultural institutions have increasingly also received grants, awards and scholarships by some private Danish foundations (see chapter 4.1.4).